Hacker News: Tepix

New comment by Tepix in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

Tepix — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:54:09 +0000

I can't because I think it is. It's also doing its part in destroying the planet as a consequence.

New comment by Tepix in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

Tepix — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:48:52 +0000

> I follow Bitcoin from a theoretical point of view and I find it fascinating.

I find it horrible: The damage done to the planet doesn't correlate with the number of transactions. It's maximizing uselessness.

New comment by Tepix in "The Seasons Are Wrong"

Tepix — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:17:49 +0000

Excellent link. So the best solution is to take the authors observation and add the average seasonal lag to arrive at the „real“ observed spring, summer, fall and winter.

New comment by Tepix in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

Tepix — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:41:41 +0000

I had one of those pre-unibody white plastic Macbooks. I hated the sharp edge on the front. With the later models it was less of an issue somehow.

New comment by Tepix in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

Tepix — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:52:17 +0000

They're more than $50 however.

New comment by Tepix in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

Tepix — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:51:00 +0000

Aren't those Android boxes that you can get for less than $30 and then flash Linux (Armbian etc) onto a much better option?

New comment by Tepix in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

Tepix — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:40:34 +0000

> One thing to be aware of: the .lsrules format from Little Snitch on macOS is not compatible with the Linux version.

Why?

New comment by Tepix in "Veracrypt project update"

Tepix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:33:13 +0000

> Windows is the only way to achieve some stuff in Veracrypt

On the other hand, if you get rid of Windows you don't even need Veracrypt.

New comment by Tepix in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

Tepix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:41:00 +0000

And your point is... everyone should have Dropbox?

New comment by Tepix in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Tepix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:40:09 +0000

Can confirm, AirZound is great!

New comment by Tepix in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

Tepix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:16:25 +0000

It's not because fixes get backported.

New comment by Tepix in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

Tepix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:15:40 +0000

Source?

New comment by Tepix in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

Tepix — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:08:26 +0000

I for one applaud them for being cautious.

New comment by Tepix in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

Tepix — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:14:34 +0000

On the other hand when a Dropbox user shares a file with you these days, the nudges have so gotten out of hand that it's a pain to use.

New comment by Tepix in "Every GPU That Mattered"

Tepix — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:03:17 +0000

Missing the Radeon RX Vega 64!

New comment by Tepix in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

Tepix — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:21:29 +0000

The source is right there, you just have to grok it.

New comment by Tepix in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

Tepix — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:16:54 +0000

Looks like I hit a nerve.

Doesn't NASA use the metric system and only when they interact with the public they provide imperial units?

New comment by Tepix in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

Tepix — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:15:28 +0000

There is a huge difference between these two statements:

> most people keep cars for 20 years or more

and

> the average age of a scrapped car in the UK is between 16 and 20 years old

Because the second fact doesn't tell you whether or not the 1st fact is true. After all, there is a second hand market where you can find cars of every age.

New comment by Tepix in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

Tepix — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:12:53 +0000

Well the car has done 50,000km before I bought it and tbh in the winter it lost quite a bit of range (I've had a different EV previously and its range didn't decrease as much during the winter). The car has a warranty on the battery valid for 8 years or 160,000km (whatever occurs first), the manufacturer promises it will have 70% or more capacity at that point.

ADAC did a test with a vehicle that reached 160,000km and its battery was at 91%.

New comment by Tepix in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

Tepix — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:10:00 +0000

Who knows - maybe I'll never have one until I stop using TOFU.